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Category Archives: Special Events
Week of 2/17/13: NBA All Star Game + Downton Abbey, Suits Season Finales
SOTU Address 2013: A Visual and Revealing Look Into Social Media’s Real-Time Reactions
Sidecastr mines its database of curated, live-captured social content to offer up a revealing visual look into social media’s real-time reaction to the 2013 State of the Union Address.
Downton Abbey (PBS), Scandal (ABC) Added to Sidecastr’s Covered Shows
We at Sidecastr have been anxiously awaiting the PBS premiere of Downton Abbey Season 3 so we can begin coverage. We are happy to tell all the Sidecastr fans who have been madly requesting it, that the day has finally arrived! Social stream coverage begins Sunday 1/6 from 9 -11p ET on PBS.
We’re also excited to announce that we’ve added ABC’s Scandal (10p Thursdays) to our covered shows list. We think this is an up and comer show so we’ve made an exception to our rule and initiated coverage at the mid-season mark.
This week is a big one for Winter Premieres: Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family), NCIS (CBS), and Modern Family (ABC) all start up their seasons again beginning this week.
But the biggest event of all this week will no doubt be the NCAA Bowl Championship Series contest between #2 Alabama and #1 Notre Dame on Monday Night (ESPN 8:30p – whenever ET).
Here’s the weekly schedule:
And We’re Back… With 6 NCAA College Bowls + mid season premiere for Big Bang, TAHM
TV is back from the holiday hiatus, and Sidecastr is back with new episode coverage featuring social TV curation, syncing, and organization. This week: Football, Football, Football – with special coverage of 6 College Bowls. Just add: NCAA College Bowls 2012-13 from our list to your shows page, and enjoy! Also this week: The Big Bang Theory and Two and A Half Men return on Thursday night. Plus, enjoy synced coverage of repeats for NCIS, Modern Family, and SNL
Week of 10/28 – 11/3: If Sandy leaves you with power, it’s a good week for TV…
Okay, practically the whole Northeast is pre-occupied with Hurricane Sandy – and rightly so. The Presidential Debates are over, the World Series might be a short one, and fall TV – for those with power – is getting back to normal.
Sidecastr’s week to week fall coverage schedule continues to rank highly in Social TV metrics as tracked by SoicialGuide: for last week, The Presidential Debates ranked #1 overall, The Walking Dead was last week’s #1 ranked series. Steelers vs. Bengals, The Voice, Saturday Night Live, The Big Bang Theory, and How I Met Your Mother all ranked among the top 25 shows for last week.
For those who are planning to catch up or watch repeats of Sidecastr’s covered shows, open up Sidecastr while you watch and let us bring live captured social stream conversation to you. This might help on Thursday night in the 9 – 10 slot, where Glee repeat is a likely filler if the World Series has ended by then
Here’s our full schedule for the week of 10/28
Week of 10/14 – 10/20: The Walking Dead Season 3 Premiere + #3 Presidential Debate
There is perhaps a no more perfect of show for Sidecastr’s brand of social TV than The Walking Dead. It’s highly requested by our users, ranks consistently high on various social TV leaderboards, has a large set of interesting and intelligent real-time tweets to choose from, and it’s is watched repeatedly and highly time-shifted on various streaming sites and devices as well as on traditional TV. So we can’t wait to start social stream coverage tonight (Sun 10/14 @ 9p ET) on AMC. The 3rd Presidential Debate is up this week from Hofstra University, this time on Tuesday 10/16 (@9p ET on various networks).
Last week’s Sunday Night Football selections by social DJ and NFL superfan Lauren Antos were excellent and so well received by our users that we are excited to announce that Lauren has been signed as a free agent 😉 to DJ the remainder of the SNF 2012/13 schedule! She covers tonights Sunday night’s game between the Green Bay Packers and the undefeated Houston Texans.
Here’s our full schedule for the week of 10/14 + timeline of upcoming special events:
Week of 9/30 – 10/6: Presidential Debate #1(CNN + all major networks)
Sidecastr’s 2nd screen coverage of the top social TV shows kicked off with a bang last week. Because we take many of our cues on which shows to cover based on published metrics of social tv comment volume, we can’t tell you how pleased we are to be covering all the Presidential Debates, beginning with debate #1 this Wed 10/3. These debates will no doubt not only rocket past our social volume criteria, but will also give Sidecastr the opportunity help pioneer social TV’s role in the promotion of an informed citizenry.
Those of you who experienced Sidecastr for iPad’s curated live social stream during the political conventions last month know how our process of needing to fill all categories with a well-paced selection of the best, most insightful tweets rolling by helps insure that our subject matter experts – our social DJs – select a balanced distillation of comments. Let us know if you agree. We’ve chosen to use CNN’s broadcast of the debates, but our syncing capabilities should allow you to watch most of the time on any channel, except during the network commentary, which will of course be different from network to network.
Here’s our full schedule for the week of 9/30 + timeline of upcoming special events:
Week of 9/23 – 9/29: Fall TV Season Officially Begins!
The 3rd week of September is traditionally launch week for Fall TV. And for Sidecastr, it’s also rollout week for our Fall TV Coverage.
This week we are initiating live coverage of the social stream for these highly social and frequently requested series from our users:
- How I Met Your Mother (CBS Mondays 8 – 8:30p)
- NCIS (CBS Tuesdays 8 – 9p)
- Modern Family (ABC Wednesdays 8 – 8:30p)
- The Big Bang Theory (CBS Thursdays 8 – 8:30p)
- Two and a Half Men (CBS Thursdays 8:30 – 9p)
We’ve also published our Fall Special Events timeline. This week there are 2:
- The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (ABC Sunday 8 – 11p)
- SNL: Weekend Edition Thursday (NBC Thursday 8 – 8:30p)
And all of this on top of recently initiated coverage of Sunday Night Football, The Voice, and Glee. And if we’re really trying to pile on: we have over 250 hours of archived shows available for repeat and time-shifted viewing. Whew!
Here’s our full schedule for the week of 9/23 + timeline of upcoming special events:
Now that the Fall TV season is officially here, check out this link to our Fall coverage, including our special events coverage as well.
We will most likely be adding additional shows to fill in some of the empty primetime slots, but in any case prior to the show’s premiere date. Don’t see a show you want? Make a comment or drop us a note at show_request@sidecastr.com